Lyrics

 ________________

 

¹ Give ear unto my words, O Lord,
my meditation weigh.
² Hear my loud cry, my King, my God;
for I to thee will pray.

³ Lord, thou shalt early hear my voice:
I early will direct
My pray’r to thee; and, looking up,
an answer will expect.

⁴ For thou art not a God that doth
in wickedness delight;
Neither shall evil dwell with thee,
⁵ Nor fools stand in thy sight.

All that ill-doers are thou hat’st;
⁶ Cutt’st off that liars be:
The bloody and deceitful man
abhorred is by thee.

⁷ But I into thy house will come
in thine abundant grace;
And I will worship in thy fear
toward thy holy place.

Notes by Rev. John Brown of Haddington

 ________________

 

To the chief Musician, upon Nehiloth,
A Psalm of David.

Here, (1.) The man according to God’s heart, in the assured faith of God’s hearing his prayers, and hating his sins, fixeth a daily, an early, an earnest, a steady, a grace-founded correspon dence with God, in his ordinances of meditation, prayer, praise, etc., ver. 1-7.

 

 

Notes of Devotion

 ________________

 

While I sing, let my heart and flesh cry out, and my soul pant and wait for the Lord. In the firm faith of infinite mercy to forgive all my crimes, and wash out all my sinful stains, let me blush at, and detest my own abominations. Let me cultivate the closest familiarity with the Lord my God. Let my prayers correspond with his promises, and with the particular condition of myself or others.